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Looks like I got LB to display the marquee image I want across all games, image view 'background', with the image placed in the 'fanart' folder. But when in big box the game's boxart is displayed on the marquee rather than the marquee image as seen in LB. Is this not possible in BB?

Ok I see, yah it would take forever to create marquee images for each and every game for the consoles, I know there are some sets out there but a static background with a wheel over it in the front end is the answer. For now I will play with the priorities, trying to just display a static marquee image while scrolling the gamelists, its ok not seeing the wheel as it will be on the main display. Not sure if that's possible?

I have a 2nd monitor for my marquee on my 4 player cab. I do have hyperspin along with hyper marquee and EDS running pretty good along with LED blinky. I have been getting to really like BigBox and will eventually make it my main FE, right now I have both. I am using 'Unified' theme. Is there some documentation or instructions on how image priority works for BB. Right now I am just testing 1 system, Colecovision... I have an image for 'banner' which will display when the platform is highlighted. When I go to game menu I will see the clear logo displayed with only a black background. Is there anyway to just show the 'banner' image when scrolling through console games? Quite a few of my wheel logos are low quality. Or is there a way to display a default background and have the game logo displayed over it when scrolling? For game titles that don't have a marquee image. (this is how hypermarquee is setup, would like to be able to do this like in pics below, static background pic, then clear logos when scrolling)

Thanks for sharing, wish I knew about this awhile ago.. looks like it is a free roaming camera mod NoEx created to view tables at any angle. But apparently it will allow table selection from what you are saying. I will try it out sometime. I'm sure someone else will find this useful as well. Only other system I use RL for, so far, is OpenBor. If there is a simpler way please share!

Yes I got it working, you need to use rocketlauncher and have it setup properly there first. Coming from Hyperspin this was pretty easy, but if you are new to rocketlauncher there is a somewhat high learning curve. I personally have the non-steam version. First step importing Pinball Arcade into LB, default location for my set is 'Pinball Arcade\PC11\Resource'. All tables have extension of *.rez. Once all imported open Rocketlauncher UI and setup LB as your default front end. Once that is done RLUI will load any LB system xml's you have setup. Go to Pinball Arcade and set default emulator to the executable, choose pinball arcade module. Test games by using game audit and selecting a table. RL will press enter a couple of times to get to table selection and scroll to the correct table and launch it. Now there may be a lot more to this depending on what version PA you have and might need to setup the module in the correct order of your table names etc. RL forums covered this awhile ago... metalzoic I believe. Also I had to name all my media the same name as original tables names for easier setup with LB. Maybe I will try to write up a detailed tutorial when I have time...

thanks for link.. I am using the standalone and resolved the issue by adding this line twice in the pause settings 'on resume' tab. Brings it back to full screen. sleep, 50 send !{Enter}

Any one having issues with PPSSPP, I have save and load game saves working fine. But resuming from pause the emulator goes into window mode, a double click with the mouse or 2 presses of Alt-Enter brings it back fullscreen. How can this be fixed.. a script of Alt-Enter after resuming from pause... where would that script go? edit - running latest version 1.8.0

Just wanted to chime in... as far MUGEN goes I did away with rocketlauncher by creating shortcuts to each games' executable. Time consuming but works fine. You could actually import the exe itself but I had a little too much to drink that evening. I do however use RL to run Pinball Arcade for individual table selection and OpenBor. So take OpenBor for example, just make sure it is setup and runs in RLUI first. OpenBor set as emulator along with OpenBor module, rompath, etc... (skip checks set to 'Rom and Emu') Each game has its own folder but also a matching empty text file with the same name (if not create them). Import the txt files as roms in launchbox, set rocketlauncher as emulator and you are good to go.

Anyone know if controller companion will work with joystick controls in a cab setup. Particularly xin-mo controllers…. or is this only for 360 gamepads.

Will give controller companion a go... haven't heard of it until now, thanks for the info!

Hey all I'm finishing up my LB build.. coming from hyperspin I used xpadder for various PC games for button mapping but also exiting, like Alt+F4. The AHK scripting in LB is a nice feature. How can I add a exit AHK script to games that don't use an emulator... so I can map an exit button for PC games.. (or any executable without an emulator)

Thanks... in the screen shots of edit emulator -- 'Attempt to hide console window on startup/shutdow' was checked. I unchecked it now I am seeing pause screen...

Thanks for the link, I discovered that when I dropped that xml into the db playlist folder and try to launch LB.... it crashes and that xml gets deleted. I assume it must be specific to your own system setup with paths etc.... I went ahead and got a list from my attract mode build and manually made my own. Here is a list of trackball games in MAME, pretty sure there are some missing but its a good start. American Horseshoes (US) AmeriDarts (set 1) Atari Baseball (set 1) Atari Football (revision 2) Atari Soccer Back Street Soccer (KRB-0031 PCB) Beezer (set 1) Big Event Golf (US) Birdie King Birdie King 2 Birdie King 3 Blades of Steel (version T) Bomb Kick (set 1) Bowling Alley Bowl-O-Rama Cabal (World, Joystick version) Capcom Bowling (set 1) Centipede (revision 4) Championship Bowling Cool Pool Crystal Castles (version 4) Dunk Shot (Rev C, FD1089A 317-0022) Eagle Shot Golf Extra Bases Free Kick (NS6201-A 1987.10) Gimme A Break (7/7/85) Goalie Ghost Golden Tee 2K (v1.00) Golden Tee 3D Golf (v1.93N) Golden Tee '97 (v1.30) Golden Tee '98 (v1.10) Golden Tee '99 (v1.00) Golden Tee Classic (v1.00) Golden Tee Golf II (Trackball, V2.2) Golden Tee Fore! 2002 Golden Tee Fore! 2003 Golden Tee Fore! 2004 Extra Golden Tee Fore! 2005 Extra Golden Tee Fore! 2006 Extra Gridiron Fight Guided Missile Indoor Soccer (set 1) Kick (upright) Krazy Bowl Liberator (set 1) Major Havoc (rev 3) Major League Marble Madness (set 1) Millipede Mini Golf (11/25/85) Missile Command (rev 3) Pound for Pound (World) Quantum (rev 2) Rambo III (Europe) Rampart (Trackball) Reactor SegaSonic The Hedgehog (Japan, rev. C) Shoot the Bull Shuffleboard Shuffleshot (v1.40) Shuuz (version 8.0) Simpsons Bowling (GQ829 UAA) Slither (set 1) Snake Pit Spiker Strata Bowling (V3) Strike Bowling Super League (FD1094 317-0045) Syvalion (Japan) Tee'd Off (Japan) Tehkan World Cup (set 1) The Irritating Maze / Ultra Denryu Iraira Bou Tri-Sports U.S. Classic Vs. Soccer (set SC4-2 A) Wacko Wally wo Sagase! (rev B, Japan, FD1094 317-0197B) World Class Bowling (v1.66) World Class Bowling Deluxe (v2.00) X the Ball

Can anyone tell me how to get pause screen to show in MAME, I have .177 romset. Pause screen shows up in Retroarch and other emulators ok. I tried turning of and on options under pause tab in emulator settings in MAME. Pause just darkens the screen, no options are visible.

wow, you put in a lot of work, how is big box running for you having to load all the xml's?

Anyone have a MAME trackball games playlist they would like to share?

thanks for sharing!

I did fix it by simply checking 'Attempt to hide console window on startup/shutdown'  This was not checked before the update and didn't have a focus issue, all in all simple fix. Will continue to test... I'm really trying to make LB my main front end of choice... coming from hyperspin/rocketlauncher, will see how it goes. Would love to see a music player in pause... similar to RL pause (great for game music for any particular system, also there is a ton or RL pause media/music out there)

Thanks for replying and the helpful links for future reference. I am new here... coming from hyperspin/rocketlauncher I did fix it by simply checking 'Attempt to hide console window on startup/shutdown' This was not checked before the update and didn't have a focus issue, all in all simple fix. Will continue to test... I'm really trying to make LB my main front end of choice, we'll see...

Since updating.... Daphne games launch then lose focus, have to click icon on taskbar to bring it back. I tried turning off pause feature in Daphne emulator with no luck. Is there a simple fix for this? Anyone else experiencing this? Windows 10, using batch file method (Daphne.exe %1 vldp -fullscreen -x 640 -y 480 -framefile "D:\Hyperspin\Roms\Daphne\framefile\%1.txt") (posted this in troubleshooting)

Well not all the way broken, since updating.... Daphne games launch then lose focus, have to click icon on taskbar to bring it back. I tried turning off pause feature in Daphne emulator with no luck. Is there a simple fix for this? Windows 10, using batch file method (Daphne.exe %1 vldp -fullscreen -x 640 -y 480 -framefile "D:\Hyperspin\Roms\Daphne\framefile\%1.txt")

I have 7z iso's for my minipsp romset. I setup the stand alone PPSSPP emulator to 'extract rom' which places the extracted ISO in the 7-zip/Temp directory. Loads up and plays just fine. When exiting the emulator the ISO's remain and do not get deleted. Demul, Dolphin... etc delete the iso's when exiting. Is there something I'm missing, How do I tell LB to delete game after PPSSPP closes?

Hey I'm a hyperspin user giving launchbox a go.... I got most my systems working without the use of rocketlauncher, except in a couple of cases I need it.... like with pinball arcade. So I am trying to use rocketlauncher as an emulator in LB to launch pinball arcade tables. In hyperspin it works flawlessly as the program will launch then rocketlaunch will scroll to the table you chose and launch it (AHK using correct number of keystrokes etc... ) In rocketlauncher… pinball arcade is setup as a 'virtual emulator'...… a rompath is not needed. When importing roms into LB, I just imported the table names with a .rez extension. So when rocketlauncher pulls LB's xml the game tables come up as 'TAddamsFamily.rez' or TAttackFromMars.Rez for example (actual file names). Launch box requires roms to have an application path to the filename... so this wont work as the pinball arcade AHK module looks for properly named games like "Addams Family, The (Bally)' or 'Attack from Mars (Bally)'. I obviously cant edit LB's xml rom entries to the game name that is required from rocketlauncher's module. Maybe have to change each table name (which I don't think will work), batch files? or is there another way? <ApplicationPath>..\Hyperspin\Roms\PC Games\Pinball Arcade\Resource\Tables\TAddamsFamily_Enums.rez</ApplicationPath>

Hello all, new to LB here.... coming from hyperspin. For big box I'm using Unified theme. I imported MAME and all the genre and mame category playlists. By default they are all put under the 'arcade' category. In big box when viewing by 'platform category' I see Arcades, Consoles, Handhelds, and Computers. Going into arcades gives me all the genres (sports games, etc) and mame categories (Capcom classics, etc). Going into these has there own theme and layout which is really nice. (Hyperspin is tedious when doing custom playlists). So far so good. So I would like to move some playlists around. So I created a new category 'Arcade Genre' to test. I moved over 1 playlist 'Ball and Paddle Games' to 'Arcade Genre'. When its highlighted the video and clear logo comes up fine. Then when I go into it only the default MAME layout is displayed... not the custom Ball and Paddle layout that is present before I moved the playlist. How do I relink the custom layouts to playlists that are moved? I am assuming all these layouts are part of the Unified Theme...Hope I am making sense..